Sadly, I have concluded that I am not a patriot.

[11 Bravo]

Sure, when my time came I put on a green suit. I got shot at, and shot back. That pretty much sums up my service. A grateful nation gave me some tin and helped me pay for college. Unlike Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, et al, I served - but no matter, I'm not a patriot. Unlike Limbaugh, I'm still married to the love of my life, and am raising two great sons. Who cares? I have neither been busted for prescription drug abuse, nor popped for vote fraud. So what? I have been a Sunday School teacher, a Cub Scout leader, and a Little League coach. Big fucking deal. I can't be a patriot. Hell, I'm not even a good American. Just ask anyone at FoxNoise. You see, friends, I don't wear a flag lapel pin. I'm so ashamed.

[annabanana]

1. Boy Howdy, 11 Bravo!

I suspect that you have lots of company.

It's really astounding how many good people this worm can insult without even leaving the room, isn't it?

[Quixote1818]

2. Bravo! Bravo nt

K & R

[NMMNG]

3. Why do you hate America?

:P

[lostnotforgotten]

4. Done Everything American Society Asked Me To Do

In the end that has made me a chump for the man.

Limbaugh just proves it.

[tom_paine]

5. As unpatriotic as a Jew in 1936 Germany.

As unpatriotic a French small-r republican under Napoleon in 1805.

As unpatriotic as our Founding Fathers, when they launched their subversive words and then their terrorist assualt against their own nation.

Isn't in funny how tyrants like Hitler, Napoleon and Bushler give such a bad name to patriotism for year, sometimes decades thereafter?

Intristically, patriotism can be one of humanities' noblest callings (the deceased writer, Robert Heinlein, once beautifully and logically outlined why in an essay in his book "Expanded Universe", which I would highly recommend).

Sometimes it sounds a little Bushie, but as a fellow veteran, I think it will be clear to you that Heinlein was no Bushie (in spite of the creepy concepts in Starship Troopers...everyone has the right to slip into foolishness for a moment, and it was just fiction), and if he were alive today he may have been fooled at first by their Bushie Lies, but he would have been one of the first to realize his error in the face of the facts.

But patriotism, like any other "tool" such as guns or scientific progress, can be used for good or ill, it depends on the hands and minds that wield them, and as we have seen, in addition to patriotism being one of huminites' noblest callings, it has also been behind the perpetration of humanity's greatest evils, such as Bushie Germany in DubyaDubyaTwo, and Bushie Amerika today, which is not even close (yet) to humanity's greatest evils but has he great potential today to become so, if these trends remain unreversed.

[HughMoran]

6. Traitor

How dare you not wear a flag lapel pin?

You know that the spiritual leader of the Christo-fascists was into worship of symbolic items, don't you?


:eyes: :eyes: :sarcasm: :eyes: :eyes:

[rodeodance]

7. Edwards tried to say the 'war on terror" was a ruse & now Obama does this

with the flag label.


Both have been and will continue to get dissed, shamed etc etc.

[bluerum]

8. damn phonies

don't tase me bro

[progressoid]

9. There is still time to redeem yourself.

If you don't want to wear a lapel pin, you can always get a magnetic ribbon for your car.




k&r!

[angstlessk]

15. Hell, I think I will wear one of them thar magnetic ribbons on my lapel

that'll show em!

[11 Bravo]

17. I'm not that brave.

Hell, doesn't sporting a car magnet as opposed to simply wearing a lapel pin elevate one from mere "patriot" to actual "hero" status?

[progressoid]

44. Yep! Get one of these and Sean Hannity will canonize you!

http://www.supportourribbons.com/detail.php?id=16

[LibDemAlways]

49. Well 11 Bravo, there's a superhero patriot in my

neighborhood. He bought a hummer and painted it to look like an American flag. Every time he burns way more fossil fuel than he needs to as he tools around town, people point and say, "There goes a true American." Puts the rest of us to shame.

[kurth]

10. Yep, real patriots wear flag lapel pins with lead paint made in China

and think IRAN should be bombed for 9/11.

[gateley]

11. K&R - I love you! nt

[havocmom]

12. 11 Bravo, thank you for your service, in and out of uniform

:patriot:

[tabasco]

13. Yeah me too.

We should all strive to be like the Great Patriots on Fox News Channel.

Army recruiting would really go in the shitter though.

[Vinca]

14. That can be remedied, 11 Bravo, and in grand style.

Anyone for sending a crate of these babies over to Faux News?
http://www.chinatraderonline.com/lighting/flashing-pin/American-Flag-Flashing-Pin-211155242.htm

[Contrary1]

16. Hell, they can purchase their own patriotic flag crap from China...

However, it would be the God-fearing, all American thing to do if we were to help them facilitate their purchase, seeing how they are so busy being patriotic and all that. :patriot:

[e-mail]

[eppur_se_muova]

33. Damn, don't wear those things to the Boston airport! nt

[kimmylavin]

18. Oh Bravo, you can still get a pin!

Seriously, where do these people get off with this???

Reminds me of one of my favorite bumper stickers: "Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism."

No matter what those losers say, Bravo, you ARE a patriot. And thank you for that.

[RoccoR5955]

19. BS

YOU are the TRUE patriot. Not some chicken-hawk armchair generals, who tout that a measure of one's patriotism is agreeing with the administration, EVEN when they commit crimes, and take us to war with a country that didn't attack us, and didn't pose a threat. A measure of one's patriotism is what they to for their country, and community, not the color of the freakin' pin they wear on their chest.

Stuff like this really gets me mad. It's like the people who put American flags on their German and Japanese cars. How patriotic is that? When you buy a car whose parent company is overseas, where do you think the profits go? Sure, some of them go to the workers in the factories here who assemble these cars, but the engineers, and executives are in another country, and your dollars go there too.
Global economy my rear. This country used to fund ALL of its government functions with TARIFFS. It seems that the corporatocracy thinks that 'tariff' is a dirty word, because they can't fund their platinum parachutes, and such.
I want to take the flags off of these cars and shove them up the owners' keisters, and call them out for the real traitors they are!
Arrgh! Don't get me started with this. It just gets me SOOOOOOOO freakin' mad!

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A CLASS WAR, AND DON'T BE FOOLED!

[Disturbed]

21. I despise the Busholini Regime & most RWingers.

What does being a Patriot mean? Hell, I don't have a clue, anymore.

[Redstone]

29. Ahem. If the Japanese companies can figure out how to build GOOD cars right here

in American, and the "American" car companies can't, why should we support those "American" companies?

I use the quotation marks around the word "American," because guess what? The Dodge Intrepid (to use just one example), which was advertised as (and this is a direct quote) "The Rebirth of the American Family Sedan" was built, guess where? Canada, that's where.

Furthermore, do yourself a favor, and do some research on where many "American" cars are actually built. I'll give you a dollar for every one that you find is actually built in America, if you'll give me a dollar for every one that's built in Mexico or Canada.

Redstone

[muffin1]

20. I was thinking,

instead of flag pins, maybe we should all wear pins like that huge map of the United States that Rob Petrie's mother gave to Laura on the old Dick Van Dyke show. Anyone old enough to remember that...anyone?
Kidding aside, you are a patriot in my book, 11 Bravo.:patriot:

[proReality]

22. I say we all need to wear flag pins...

making certain they're always upside down till we get this country turned around.

[madamesilverspurs]

45. Never wore a flag pin

until W came along. Since the day he took office I have worn the pin upside down. And a lot of wrists have been lightly slapped for trying to "fix" it. And I've been glared at, stared at, cussed at and stomped-off at. But it's staying upside down until Bush and Co. are out of office. When that danger is gone we'll be able to live proudly again, without the need to wear little cheesey flags in order to out-American each other.

[BlueJac]

23. You knocked it out of the park!

Nice post!

[Xenotime]

24. You sound like a true american..

People don't want to associate with us anymore. They hate what we have become becuase of *.

[Diclotican]

65. Xenotime

For the most part the rest of the world dont hate US. But they do are werry, werry disepointed about the last 6 year, and cant understand that this Once great nation have fallend so long down the road.. For the most part, in Europe then we do have a lot common wit US. So We seldom HATE US, but many, verry many are extremely disepointed.. I Am that.. Verry disepointed about the whole thing.. This is NOT the "old US" who I admired once.... This is a great power going mad, totaly going mad... And it vil cost US lot of resourses and time to build up what this ******* Administration have destroyd..

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

[Xenotime]

71. Thank you for your explaination

[Diclotican]

79. Xenotime

Xenotime

Your welcome:). We on the outside DONT HATE US and what it stand for. WE just dont know what US are doing, or why they are doing as they are doing.. And if half the storries are true, the US are in some big problems, who they have to fix after this regime is over.. If they manage to do it them...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish not my native language

[immoderate]

75. You summed up the feelings of every thoughtful American.

We don't hate America. We are disappointed. Imagine how it feels seeing the madness going on around you. :crazy:

--IMM

[Diclotican]

78. IMModerate

Hello

I cant imagine how it are feeling, when your country are what US are today, with a President who cant even SPELL nations or try to speak withouth pre-scripted plans.. I know that it is many names who are dificult to understand for americans, but you havent had this type of man in power before...

If half what is been writing here on DU or other "regime critical sites" around the world is true, US is in the grasp of starting to be a dictatorship faster than ever.. US who are today are striking similaries to countrys like German in the middleyear between the two world war, or the Sovjet union of 1950-1970s.. Yes you havent getting that far as Germany and Russia have been, but you are absolutely in the danger of starting to be like that verry fast if you dont know how to stop it... Your fear, your anger are building up a regime who can destroy the rest of the world.. If you belive US are in dip dodo now?.. I really hope it wil not happend something to US before 2009.. If US are attaced, the marshal law, the ulawfould arrest of thousands of sivilians are just the isberg who are to happend.. The prisions, military and sivilian vil overflow, not just with criminals, but sivilians who just are in the way of the new "world" ...

As a forreigner, I am scared about what is happening in US, this is not a healty nation, who are waging a war for peace and justise.. This is not THE nation who after WW2 was europes garanti, who 3 generations grow up to admire, and maybee love to... 3 generation europan have a good wiew of US.. Today you may see that slip away, and I dont know what wil follow after that..

I am scared that US, and spesially the extreme element are willing to get to war over EVERYONE who object to US war politic... If this exuse for a man had used the suport he was getting after 911 he had coming a long way already.. Now he is F*** everywhere you se it, and it is the extremist groups who suport him now. And they are powerfull enought to get what they want.. Maybee even a dictatorship with GWB as their figurhead...

Dangrous times..

Dicloican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

[immoderate]

80. Your English is good, because your ideas are correct.

The US has been the flagship for democracy and freedom, but we don't own it. We are as likely as any country to lose the "delicate balance" if we are not careful. And we have not been careful.

Restoring the balance is a difficult task, and frustrating to us who are having a hard time making changes. Your fears are my fears.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

--IMM

[Diclotican]

81. IMModerate

IMModerate

In my own language the saying is like this "demokrati kommer ikke rekende på en fjøl, men må jobbes hardt for og oppnås".. Or, if I may try to translate it to some "bad" engelish. Democracy are not easy to build, and have to been build one brick of time.. And US hav had that "balance" for many year.. Under the war, and after the war america with it prosperity and velbuild democracy was a kind of shining "exemple".. Even that many europan had some disagremant over many thing the american policy was doing, both in our "backyard" or in other lands, we do respected US for the democracy it was...

It locks like US have not been "carefull" with the balance of power, and now have a President who act more an more like a dictator, who dosent care to respekt the Senat or the Kongress. In fact he cant se to respect the people who get him "elected" even, and that is BAD when you think about it.. Many conservative who really belived that mr Bush was making The White house more respectable after Clintons " I dont have sex with that woman" have turned from him, and turned their back on the policy that mr Bush are advocating... And the result is that Mr Bush are been more isolated, to the group who REALLY have the power behind mr Bush Presidency.. Yes mr Bush is the President, but it is other who REALLY are ruling the country behind him, and who are given hi, the adwices he rule by.. in the 1970s, the Star War movies was made public, and one of the plot was that "emperor Palpatine" was using a policy with the Death Star. Rule by fear: Mr Bush have not a Death Star to rule by, but he is puting many of the same ideas, tha it play for the fear that are living inside the most peopole after 9/11. Istead of building of the suport he was given both international and national, he divided the whole world into "evil" and "nice" and then build the policy he want to be know by. Rule by Fear, and divide the oppotion to do what he want.. Many of the new laws, specially they who are given mr Bush as President more and more power to rule by decree, not by consent from Kongress or Senat are slovely destroying the fundation who have made US the great nation it was once... As the "Galactic Senat" in Starwars was destroying becouse of the powergrab and corruption from their officals, it is scarry to se some of the same politic are playing out in the US kongress and senat today.. But YOU can stop it if you really want it, push for shange contact the officals and wote in pepole who are decent enough to try to fix the problems... Then you dont need to act supriced when the the US type of Dart Vader are coming public out and use the "rule by fear". Even without the Death Star weapon...

It wil be HARD to rebuild what is destroyd, but if you want help, you wil get it from your "irellevant allied" when the time come.. I know it wil be hard to get help from germany, france and the other european nation who for 50 year or so was depended of US military help. But for the most part, we are willing to help US, and dont demand to mutch in return... Just try to respect us, and you wil come a long way of rebuilding the good ol days I guess...

And it it is god to know that my fear are shared by many others to, it is kind of "comforting" to know that not EVERYONE american are bying into the official policy of Mr Bush politic.. But it is many who are doing it.. I know about some, and they are fighting everytime mr Bush have doing a "gaffer"... Belive me that is not pretty when they are using their more foul language..

Diclotian

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

[Forkboy]

25. Sound like one to me.

:)

[Redstone]

26. Yes, you dirty, phony soldier, you didn't have a Patriotic Pimple on your ass like

Mister Patriot Limpballs did, and why didn't you? Do you hate us for our freedoms? And tell us, if you dare, exactly WHY you haven't gone on any "man cruises" to the Carribean like Limpballs did?

If you're not a fat fuck who squats, astonishingly toadlike, in front of a microphone and spews sewage, you are NOT a Real American. Exactly WHAT part of that Patriotic Truth do you not get?

It's the 21st Century, 11B, and you gotta get with the Program of the New Truth. You joined? You took fire? You contribute to your community? You think that doing THAT allows you to consider yourself a PATRIOT? What quaint notions you have.

It's a different world, these days. March in lockstep with The Real Patriots, or get left behind.

Redstone

[sce56]

27. Yes I hear you too Grunt! I'm not a Patriot either according to Rash Limpballs!

My twenty years of service were all phony also since I don't believe Iraq was responsible for 911 and we have done nothing but waste the lives our troops and the people of Iraq.

Now Real Patriots like Limpballs want us to attack Iran so the Microphone Bn at ClearlyCrazy Channel are thumping the mikes and keyboards of war!
In reality Hey Rush LameBrain Why don't you go back to the Domincan Republic to molest kids again but this time make sure you get caught since that is most likely what he is just another rePervtican pedophile!

http://pssht.com/biography/rush_limbaugh.html

Hey this is great stuff look at the above link for the dirt on Limballs!

Political commentator, radio host, college drop-out, alleged
closet homosexual, and, as recently revealed, synthetic heroin
drug addict, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is probably the best
known neocon personality in American radio.

Born in Cape Girardeau, MO, in 1951, Limbaugh spent many of
his formative years pursuing a career in radio.

After using his pilonidal cyst - a congenital birth defect - to
avoid military service in the Vietnam War, Limbaugh briefly
worked for radio stations in Pittsburgh, PA and Kansas City,
MO. Fired from both jobs, he worked as a wiener salesman for
the KC Royals baseball franchise, eventually slithering back into
the radio business.

In mid-2004 Rush and his
third wife, Marta Limbaugh, filed for divorce. A British source has recently learned
that Marta agreed to avoid disclosing Rush's closeted homosexuality, or penchant
for child pornography, in exchange for a hefty divorce settlement.


Here, in his "Jeff Christie" phase, Rush Limbaugh worked under an assumed identity, as do
many self-loathing, closeted homosexuals. After being arrested for soliciting a gay man in
Pittsburgh, Limbaugh was fired from KQV radio, according to numerous sources.

And there is independent verification from here http://www.reelradio.com/jay/index.html


Jeff Christie, KQV, Pittsburgh, 1974 (10:45)

..the Marconi Award for Excellence in Broadcasting...

Jeff Christie, KQV

(Photo courtesy Jeff Roteman) Listen up, you people! All across the fruited plain, Mary Snerdly and all the other rich kids were enjoying the Award-Winning Jeff Christie Rock and Roll Radio Show on KQV, Pittsburgh, in 1974.

You may not recognize the voice immediately (it's pitched lower these days), but you will recognize a few of the trademark phrases that Christie still uses today.

This is an excellent aircheck of late-model KQV, and the fun and frolic therein is a classic example of Excellence in Broadcasting, presented by the man we know today as . . . Rush Limbaugh.

http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/christie.html

And from the
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07131/785094-80.stm

[The Wizard]

42. OK, when are the videos going to surface

of the hot man on man action featuring Rash, Michael Jackson and Ann D. Coulter?
As long as fascist scumbags like Rash think we who served are phony soldiers I will feel good.
13 Echo and 82 Charlie here. Artillery FDC and Artillery survey, a euphamism for forward observer.
A green suit and an M-16 separates the flag wavers from the Constitution defenders.
Some people just need a good beating.

[11 Bravo]

43. I'm with you, brother.

(And FOs were some ballsy mother-fuckers. I was usually inside the perimeter, but just the words "short round" still give me night sweats.)

[The Wizard]

58. Since we were always surrounded

being inside the perimeter wasn't all that safe. Base camps provided stationary targets the VC and NVA had zeroed in. We were all one shot away from having our names on the Wall in DC. But I will say, my worst times were in the field, and the thoughts of those times are best left resting.

[sce56]

46. I don't know about a beating how about a good Tar & Feathering!

http://web.archive.org/web/20021013181055/
52Bravo 52Delta 63Bravo with a Hotel designator and lastly 52Echo having served from Germany to Korea and many points in between.

[JMDEM]

52. Shouldn't this be given its own dedicated thread?

As you are the original poster sce56, would you be willing to do that?

[Blue Fire]

28. No cookies and milk for YOU tonight!!

Shame on you!

But if you go out and buy the biggest gas-wasting SUV you can find and plaster it full of those gaudy yellow ribbons you shall be therefore considred redeemed and your patriotism restored to you in full.

And stay away from America-hating web sites like DemocraticUnderground.com. They will only lead you to further ruin! :evilgrin:

[Iris]

30. false patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel - Sums up FOX News nicely, no?

http://www.samueljohnson.com/refuge.html

"However, Boswell assures us that Johnson was not indicting patriotism in general, only false patriotism."

[eppur_se_muova]

35. Adding the word "false" clarifies that phrase so well. nt

[Iris]

82. I thought so, too! Perfect for this thread especially.

[Jolly Sapper]

31. ...

Enlisted for the college money and bit of worldly experience that was not to be found in Podunk, USA where I grew up. Operated tanks/apc's, ran around with machine guns, and played with demolitions. Later I was sent to blow up a country in a desert. A few near hits later I'm was back in garrison finding myself drunk off my ass and trying to console a squad mate while he spent hours screaming and crying how he couldn't get the sound of screaming kids out of his head. I'm in college, living on a farm (courtesy of her mother's most gracious charity)with the missus of almost eight years now. I too bare the shameful stigma of being a bad American because I don't wear a flag lapel pin.

[democrank]

32. Good to have you here, Jolly Sapper.

Welcome to DU. ~PEACE~

[11 Bravo]

40. Welcome home, bro.

And welcome to DU.

[Lost4words]

66. You are a first order Human Being, you dont need a PIN for that!

God Bless You and always search for the truth!

[Lost4words]

67. BTW Welcome to DU! :-)

:hi: 8643

[democrank]

34. Please get a flag pin, 11 Bravo. Please.

People who don`t wear flag pins get put on an Enemies List or something, plus they look unpatriotic when they`re photograped beside Chickenhawks. If you want one, I`ll go get a pin for you at our big, corporate drug store. Their flag pins are made in China, only 99 cents. The pin on the back won`t break off as long as you`re careful not to wiggle it too much.

[dickbearton]

36. K&R.

[tularetom]

37. I was called. I served although not happily

but in retrospect WTF else was I gonna do at that age. Since then I have been married to the same woman for 45 years, two kids and three grandkids and just found out we're going to be great grandparents in April. I don't wear a flag lapel pin either. Ergo I too am no patriot. Wish I'd known how easy it was. Just buy a two bit flag pin made in China and stick it on you coat and yer a patriot.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

38. I ceased being a patriot in 1965.

When the Marine Corps asked me to extend my enlistment to kill people I didn't know so LBJ could prove he was "tough" on Communism.

"Patriotism is the most foolish of passions, and the passion of fools." - Schopenhauer

[TomClash]

39. Hey, I read your profile - you play golf!

That makes you a "Great American."

I served, got shot at, got bombed, ran like hell as the towers collapsed and I've been to the most of the nations we call enemies.

I'm a patriot. And so are you.

[obiwan]

41. Bravo 11, in the truest sense, you are a patriot to me.

[Gregorian]

47. Yeah. What a pathetic group we are.

I volunteered thousands of hours at the veterans hospital in Palo Alto. And for what it's worth, I'm an eagle scout.

We're lucky they include us as citizens. And I'll admit to having hated the flag for decades, as it is a symbol of the right wing of this country. So I really belong in Canada, as far as they're concerned.

[Swamp Rat]

48. Phony soldiers and anal cysts.

[Daphne08]

50. We know you spy on us and read DU, Limbaugh, so read

it!

Try to find that conscience you sold long ago for the millions ($$) you are paid each year.

[JMDEM]

51. Wear A pin? Wear A pin?

You should be wearing two pins. No make that 4. No make that 8.

I'd love to see the candidates getting into a flag lapel pin competition. "I'm more patriotic than you because I have TWO American flag lapel pins!" "Well, I'm more patriotic than you because I have EIGHT American flag lapel pins!"

"Well, I'm more patriotic than ALL of you because I'm wearing 200 American flag lapel pins, many in places you can't see! And some of those are DAMNED uncomfortable, but I'm gonna keep wearing them because I'm a Patriot!!!!"

[NanceGreggs]

53. The Confession of a Blabber-Mouth ...

I have such undying respect (and envy) for people who can speak volumes in just a few, well-chosen sentences.

As you have done here, my friend, in no uncertain terms.

Beautifully said. And a humble thanks to you, and all of the non-lapel-pin wearing unpatriots like yourself who make this country great.

:patriot:

[Name removed]

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[lateo]

55. 11 Bravo here too.

1985-1991

[watercolors]

56. I won't fly my flag anymore

The day we win back our country I will gladly fly it again! BRAVO, there are many of us who are not patriots by this administrations standards.

[Tab]

57. Yeah, you're a real Phucking Phony Soldier

Unlike Rush, who would have been one if he could </sarcasm>

Phuck them.

Service aside, just raising a nice pair of kids is the best thing you can do for your country. I'm in the parenting business myself, and I know it's not easy. You deserve more accolades for that than just about anything else.

Although, did you know that to become a patriot all you have to do is raise $150,000 in campaign donations? Really, it's that easy.

[Vidar]

59. Neither a chicken hawk nor cannon fodder, obviously not a "patriot".

Cheerfully recommended.

[maine_raptor]

60. I wanted to wear a flag pin

But I couldn't find any that were "Made in the USA".

[Mendocino]

61. I'm not a patriot either.

I like to think that I'm a citizen, a citizen of the world.

[emanymton]

62. You Were Saying? Flag? This Is The Proper Use Of Ol' Glory...

.


What is even more appropriate than:



So tell me again how patriotic you are! Call me again when you are confused.
.

[eileen fleming]

63. any monkey can wave a flag; a patriot RISES UP and dissents

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."
~Theodore Roosevelt

When THAT DAY we call 9/11 happened and Bush told us to go shopping if we wanted to help and implemented his Doctrine of FEAR; I did NOT go shop and I was not afraid; I was curious as to why a few-and back then it was but a few angry madmen could hate the USA so much as to target and murder innocent people.

I began to research about the Middle East and as all roads lead to Jerusalem; I traveled to occupied Palestine five times and learned plenty!


Speaking out against unjust and hypocritical government policy-be it Israel or USA, is not in the least anti-Semitic or unpatriotic; it is the right thing and the common sense thing to do:




"Soon after I had published the pamphlet "Common Sense" in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion... The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."-Tom Paine

ehttp://www.wearewideawake.org/

[emanymton]

64. Welcome To DU

[sellitman]

68. I wear one

Upside down.

[TacticalPeek]

69. Your headline fooled me.

I was thinking you were one of those phoney soldiers. Even if you wore a flag pin, you couldn't be a patriot: you served your country in time of war and disagree with a draft dodger.

:patriot:

[Maestro]

70. I think you are!

Screw Limpballs and FoxNoise.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

72. "A Pledge Pin? On Your Uniform??"

You have done more than any ten thousand of those lapel pin patriots, my friend.

Great post :pals: :D

[Rosa Luxemburg]

73. you should ask to be interviewed on TV

all the veterans I know are getting more and more furious with this chicken hawk patriotism of the likes of Lipbaugh, Hannity and Coulter.

[L0oniX]

74. I wear American flag underware ...unfortunatly it has a big brown spot on the bottom

[tanyev]

76. Has anyone ever checked the lead content in those pins?

Might explain a lot.

[codjh9]

77. You are INDEED a patriot - a TRUE one - yeah, I know you were being facetious

... but yes, like Obama, you see that wearing a flag lapel pin 'don't mean shit', as we say down here in TX.